This Strategy Guide introduces strategies teachers can use for ELL vocabulary instruction in their English and content area classrooms.
Supporting Vocabulary Acquisition for English Language Learners
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Promoting Student Self-Assessment
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6 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that will promote self-assessment and contribute to a richer understanding of student learning.
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Teaching With Multiple Modalities
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6 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide, you'll see how one lesson utilizes tiered texts and multiple modalities in order to meet the learning style needs of students.
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Evidence-based Discussions
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6 - 12
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These Strategy Guides offer varied ways to support students as they develop the skills and habits necessary to participate in evidence-based conversations.
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Inquiry-Based Learning
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K - 12
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In this series of Strategy Guides, you'll learn about different methods and activities to encourage inquiry-based learning in your classroom.
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Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
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6 - 12
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This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
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The Art of the Doodle: Writing with Imagination
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5 - 12
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Use independent, imaginative artwork and varied writing prompts to assess understanding of a given topic for a student body with differentiated needs.
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Reading on the Go
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5 - 12
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In this Strategy Guide, learn how to prepare yourself and your students for reading and note-taking in mobile environments.
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Using Partner Talk to Strengthen Student Collaboration and Understanding
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K - 8
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In this strategy guide, you'll learn about Partner Talk—a way to provide students with another learning opportunity to make learning their own through collaboration and discussion.
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Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
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K - 6
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In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create "reading buddies."
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Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
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6 - 12
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Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
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Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
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5 - 12
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Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
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Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki
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6 - 12
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Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.
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Promoting Student-Directed Inquiry with the I-Search Paper
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8 - 12
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The sense of curiosity behind research writing gets lost in some school-based assignments. This Strategy Guide provides the foundation for cultivating interest and authority through I-Search writing, including publishing online.
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Performing Poetry
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K - 5
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Performing poetry incorporates oral reading, literature, and the performing arts. This strategy can benefit content area readers, English language learners, or learners with special needs.
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Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom: "The same ol' danger but a brand new pleasure"
9 - 12
Professional Library
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The first volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series, this small, practical book features primary source materials including many of Giovanni's poems reprinted in full, easily adaptable lessons and activities, and a resource section for students and teachers wishing to study Giovanni further.
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New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
K - 6
Professional Library
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David and Phyllis Whitin offer K–6 teachers a wealth of ideas for integrating literature and mathematics.
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Go Public!: Encouraging Student Writers to Publish
6 - 12
Professional Library
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Intended for middle and high school teachers, Go Public! offers specific writing ideas and classroom activities to help students develop the confidence and ability to publish in a wide market.
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Language Learners in the English Classroom
7 - 12
Professional Library
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This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.
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Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
7 - 12
Professional Library
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John Golden offers middle and high school teachers a practical guide for using documentary film in the classroom to improve students' reading, writing, and thinking skills.